Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

Hallo!

On Thu, 26 May 2005 23:27:30 -0700,
"David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...> wrote:

> I'm giving another talk on language creation this coming Tuesday,
> and I had a very simple request.  I'd like to gather some samples
> of the words (nouns, hopefully) for "fire" and "water" in a bunch
> of different conlangs.  Since this is related to conlanging, you can
> reply onlist, but there might be a bunch of replies, in which case
> offlist replies are fine.  To get the ball rolling, here's the words for
> "fire" and "water" in several of my conlangs:
>
> [...]
Germanech:

fuch `fire'
ach `water'

Old Albic has two words for each, one animate (seeing fire/water as
an active natural entity) and one inanimate (seeing as a substance):

        animate  inanimate

fire    phaja    loch
water   lara     haph

Greetings,

Jörg.